Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment (환경영향평가)

Korean Society of Environmental Impact Assessment (한국환경영향평가학회)
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Identification of Potential Environmental Impacts among Renewable Energy Technologies Promising to Minimize Global Warming

지구온난화 최소화를 위한 신재생 에너지들의 잠재환경영향

  • Kim, Yong-Bum (Institute of Basic Science, Sunchon National University) ;
  • Chung, Yong (The Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Yonsei University)
  • 김용범 (순천대학교 기초과학연구소) ;
  • 정용 (연세대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Received : 2006.11.08
  • Accepted : 2007.12.04
  • Published : 2008.02.29
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Abstract

Global warming, which is one of the most serious challenges, has been the subject of intense debate and concern for many scientists, policy-makers, and citizens for at least the past decade. To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, we must reduce our emissions like carbon dioxide. Alternatives to achieve an energy future without serious global warming are to change to clean and renewable sources of energy like the wind, the sun lights, rivers, the biomass, hydrogen, and oceans. To identify some of the key and new environmental impacts associated with renewable energy and hydrogen energy, we set up the new conceptual methodology. Specifically, new identified environmental and health impacts are related with the usage of hydrogen energy. When comparing with fossil fuel, the renewable energies can reduce the release of carbon dioxide when they are used except hydrogen produced from fossil fuel. However, all renewable energy technologies are not appropriate to all applications or locations. Our results suggest that all of alternatives to replace fossil fuel can release the several global and local impacts although they seems to be smaller than the impacts from fossil fuel. Therefore, the quantitative and detail analysis to assess environmental impacts of the alternative energies might be useful to make our decision for the future energy against the global warming.

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